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Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Danil'chenko's Testimony continues
Summary: Soviet interrogation record
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Organization: The Nizkor Project, Vancouver Island, CANADA
Keywords: Sobibor,Danil'chenko
MINUTES OF INTERROGATION
March 7, 1949 The City of Dniepropetrowsk
We, the assistant military prosecutor of the forces of the Ministry
for Internal Affairs of the Ukraine District, Major in the legal
service Pidotov, and senior investigator in the Department of
Investigations in the State Ministry of Defense, District of
Dniepropetrowsk - Lt. Chernov, interrogated the accused:
Ignat Terentiewitch Danilchenko
The interrogation started at 23:00 hours.
The interrogation ended at 01:00 hours.
Question: Being shown to you is service certificate number 1016 in the
German language with a photograph, confirmed by a stamp as being the
picture of a man number 1016. To whom does this document belong?
Answer: The certificate shown to me about service whose number is 1016
is a second copy of the certificate that was given to me at the end of
the training in the police training camp of the SS in the town of
Trawniki (Poland). The image appearing in the picture with number 1016
is me - Ignat Terentiewitch Danilchenko. The said photograph as made
in Summer 1942, on the third day after the arrival at the police
training camp of the SS in the township of Trawniki.
Question: What period did you spend in the SS police training camp in
the township of Trawniki?
Answer: In the training camp in the township of Trawniki I spent
almost three months, from June to September 1942.
Question: Name the camps to which you went as part of the practical
work during the studies at the SS police school in the township of
Trawniki.
Answer: During my studies at the SS police school in the township of
Trawniki, I did not leave for anywhere, because in the framework of
the practical work in the Trawniki camp, I and the other trainees
guarded the camp in which were held Polish civilian detainees, and we
accompanied them under guard to work.
Question: Enumerate camps at which you served as a Wachman.
Answer: During the whole of my service in the SS forces, I served at
the Sobibor camp (Poland), in the towns of Flossenburg and Regensburg
(Germany).
Question: What was the designation of these camps?
Answer: Sobibor camp (Poland) was an extermination camp or, as it was
termed, a death camp. Its main designation was extermination of
civilians from various countries.
The extermination was perpetrated through suffocation by gasses in
special chambers.
In this camp I stayed, as a Wachman, for one year.
During my stay at this camp, I had to guard the trains arriving with
people sentenced to death, accompany them under guard to the second
camp, as it was termed, where they were undressed, about which I have
testified in the previous interrogations and can confirm this in full.
The camps in the towns of Flossenburg and Regensburg were
concentration camps where prisoners stayed and worked on special
orders for the army.
In these camps, I was engaged on guarding the prisoners and
accompanying them under guard to work.
Question:Give the names of the people from the District of
Dniepropetrowsk who served with you in these camps.
Answer: Together with me, from among the residents of the District of
Dniepropetrowsk who served in these camps, were:
Chomenko and Rodenko, about whose description and activity I have
testified in the previous interrogations.
Question: To whom from among your relatives and members of the village
have you related about your service in the SS forces?
Answer: About my service in the German army - SS forces, my mother,
Ekolina Danilchenko knows, for I sent to her while I was in service a
photograph in the uniform of an SS policeman and I wrote in a letter
that I was serving in the German army.
But about my service in the death camp and in the concentration camps
I have told no-one; I kept it a secret.
Question: Specify in which military unit you served at the beginning
of the homeland war?
Answer: At the beginning of the homeland war until I was taken
captive, that is until May 1942, I served in artillery division no.
136.
Question: What do you want to add to your testimony?
Answer: I have nothing to add; I confirm in full my previous
testimonies.
The minutes have been read by me; are recorded correctly according to
my words and therefore I am signing. (Signature: Danilchenko)
The interrogation was conducted by:
Assistant military prosecutor of the forces of the Internal Affairs
Ministry of the District of Ukraine Major in the legal service
Pidotov. (Signature)
Senior investigator in the Department of Investigations at the State
Ministry of Defense Lt. Chernov (Signature)
Stamp of the USSR Attorney-General
Correct.
Director of the Office of the USSR Attorney-General - A.P. Vladimirov
(Signature)
The original in Criminal File (in the archives) No. 15457 versus
Danilchenko, 47-68.
Director of the Office of the USSR Attorney-General - A.P. Vladimirov
- (Signature)

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